"I am confident in saying, at this point," Republican elector Christopher Suprun said, "I don’t think I will be the only one voting for someone other than Donald Trump. At this point there are people who have reached out to me. Again it wouldn’t be my place to name who they are."

Hinting at a broad shake-up at the Energy Department, Trump's team has submitted a list of 65 questions requesting information on everything from how to keep aging nuclear plants online to a list of employees and contractors that attended the United Nations climate meetings.

"Customers Bancorp, Inc. the parent company of Customers Bank, today reported that the Company achieved a market capitalization of $1 billion on December 6, 2016. "Reaching a market capitalization of $1 billion is an important milestone for us," said Jay Sidhu, Chairman and CEO of Customers."

In what is being touted as further diversification of the president-elect administration, Donald Trump is expected to name Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) to lead the Interior Department, according to reports. McMorris Rodgers gets the nod ahead of Sarah Palin and Harold Hamm.

At best one can accuse Wall Street analysts and the companies that feed them information of incompetence. At worst this is another pure and simple case of institutions gaming the system through a fraud designed to prop up stock prices.

Just hour after anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders was convicted of insulting and incting discrimination against Maroccans, moments ago the local police announced they have arrested a man in Rotterdam, suspected of planning a terrorist attack. Law enforcement found a Kalashnikov assault rifle and an Islamic State flag while raiding the man’s house.

For the 3rd month in a row , wholesale inventories dropped year-over-year (tumbling 0.4% MoM in October, the most since February) casting modest shadows on the Q4 GDP hope. Sales surged however, jumping 1.4% in October (double the 0.7% increase expected). Overall this reduced the critical inventories-to-sales ratio but it remains at notable cyclical highs.

Having soared ridiculously (25% off Tuesday lows) following its dip after the Italy referendum 'no' vote, ailing Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena has seen its stocks and bonds eviscerated in today's trading as reality dawns that the fecal matter in Italy is about to strike the rotating object. ECB's rejection of Paschi's request for more time has sparked wholesale selling across the Italian banking system.

The “Curse of Correlation” may have finally met its match. The President-Elect’s proposed policies break so completely with the last 8 post-Crisis years that investors are re-evaluating everything from the trajectory of long term interest rates to which sectors stand to benefit the most under a Trump presidency.

Just days after president-elect Donald Trump called out Boeing for "out of control" costs on its Air Force One bid, the aircraft manufacturer has decided to match its donation to President Obama, giving $1 million to the president-elect’s inauguration, USA Today reports.

According to Reuters, as of moments ago the ECB has called Italy's bluff, and the central bank "has rejected a request by ailing Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena for more time to raise capital, a source said on Friday, in a move that piles pressure on the Italian government to bail out the bank."

A Dutch court convicted politician Geert Wilders of insulting and incting discrimination against Maroccans, but it imposed no penalty on him while clearing him of inciting hatred. Wilders was charged regarding a 2014 incident in which he urged his supporters to chant they wanted “Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!” Moroccans in the Netherlands.